Last month Lee Johnson explained why he had decided to change Reid’s position for this season.

Bobby Reid

He said: "So I'm thinking hold on a minute, let's have an experiment. I spoke to Bobby Reid at the end of last season and told him of my intentions.

"I love him, I'm desperate for him to play, but as a midfielder sometimes the competition is too strong and he doesn't have quite the attributes in a defensive sense that I'm after, or the physical prowess.

"But as a striker he's got good movement, his technique's good, he can handle the ball [with his] back to goal, he never stops running - he's like a Duracell battery up there - at shutting down and pressing and he's just a pest to play against. But we see him every day and we see he can finish as well.

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"He's a brave little git as well - he gets in dangerous areas and he doesn't mind taking one for the team," said Johnson.

Bobby Reid of Bristol City cuts a frustrated figure after almost scoring a goal (Image: Robbie Stephenson/JMP)

This is what the player himself told the Post after scoring in the City’s first game of the season against Barnsley: "Yeah I wanted to do that, personally, to bring that into the season [his great pre-season form].

“I didn't want to go into the new season not getting any goals and [then] not knowing where the goals were going to come from.